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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1902
Page
5
A vintage ad invites shoppers to browse a Merry Xmas display featuring coats for men and women plus accessories such as silk mufflers handkerchiefs gloves and dress shirts. It promotes coats suits and overcoats as practical gifts with a range of ladies items like shawls muffs and jackets.
The column lists farm loan notes and a flood of holiday ads from local merchants. It promotes Teutsch Castle Gratz St Joe Store and Pendleton vendors selling oysters shoes candy nuts and candles. Real estate offers include 440 acres with barn and house, and parcels sold by E T Wade and J W Shearer. Senator Perkins Alaska housing bill mentioned.
Claus Lempke a wealthy Umatilla county farmer in Cold Springs died by suicide in an old house near his home after a troubled period including a past attempt and a rejected romance. His funeral, led by Rev. H Ricks of Walla Walla, was held at his home with burial in Warren Station cemetery.
Western railway rates restoration takes effect today, boosting revenues by an estimated 26 percent on affected commodities and about 10 percent on related traffic. The move, part of last month’s price restoration plan, targets packinghouse products and cattle and could shape next year’s freight totals. The article also notes unrelated items including a dinner committee in New York and a Hamburg America line service expansion between Genoa San Remo Monte Carlo and Nice.
One thousand birds are expected for the fourth annual poultry show opening tomorrow at Armory hall in Walla Walla. Ninety entries already arrived, with more birds being placed along the walls as prep continues. Judge Hitchcock of Denver has arrived to begin work when the show opens, and if all birds arrive the exhibit will near a thousand fowls.
In Walla Walla on Sunday December 15 the town appeared largely open as saloons and stores unlocked. After a year of sporadic enforcement the Sunday closing law was not enforced, with doors ajar and patrons moving freely, as if a normal day.
Mrs Irene Harris of Conse Crowk county died at home Saturday morning from diabetes. She had suffered from the disease for about five years. She was mother to Mrs EK Smith and Mrs TL Davin of this city and was 47 years old.
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